1Then Solomon gathered all the tribes of Israel and all the Heads of the tribes and the Princes of the fathers, and they were assembled to King Solomon in Jerusalem to bring up the Ark of the covenant of LORD JEHOVAH from the city of David, which is this Zion. 2And all of the house of Israel were assembled to King Solomon in the month of harvest at the feast; this is the seventh month. 3And all the tribes of Israel came and the Priests picked up the Ark of LORD JEHOVAH 4And they brought it to the temple of LORD JEHOVAH, and the Priests of Israel and the Levites also brought up with them the Tent of Time and the vessels of holiness of the Tabernacle. 5And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled to him stood with him in front of the Ark, and they sacrificed sheep and bulls that were not counted and were not computed for their multitude 6And the Priests brought the Ark of the Covenant of LORD JEHOVAH to its place in the temple, to the Place of The Holy of Holies under the wings of the Cherubim. 7Because the Cherubim spread their wings in the holy place and were overshadowing with their wings over the Ark and over its poles from above. 8And the poles were long and the tops of the poles were appearing from the Holy Place in the front of the temple, and were not seen outside, and they have been there until today. 9There was nothing in the Ark except two tablets of stone that Moshe put there in Khoreeb, when LORD JEHOVAH established a covenant with the children of Israel when they went out from Egypt. 10And when the Priests went out from the Holy Place, a cloud filled the house of LORD JEHOVAH. 11And the Priests were not able to stand and minister before the cloud, because the glory of LORD JEHOVAH filled the house of LORD JEHOVAH.

12Then Solomon said: “LORD JEHOVAH, you have said to dwell in darkness.

13And I built the house as a dwelling place for you, fashioned for your dwelling for eternities!”

14The King turned his face and he blessed all the multitude of Israel, and all the multitude of Israel stood. 15And he said: “Blessed is LORD JEHOVAH, God of Israel, who spoke by his mouth with David my father, and made peace by his hands, and said. 16‘From the day when I brought out my people the children of Israel from Egypt, I have not taken pleasure in a city of all the tribes of Israel to build the house where my name will be, and I was pleased with David, that he would be over my people Israel.’ 17And it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of LORD JEHOVAH, God of Israel. 18And LORD JEHOVAH said to David my father: ‘For the sake of what was in your heart, to build a house to my name, it is beautiful what you have done, that was in your heart. 19However you shall not build a house to my name, but only your son who proceeds from your loins, he shall build a house for my name.’ 20And LORD JEHOVAH has confirmed the word that he spoke, and I have risen in the place of David my father and I sit on the throne of Israel, according to what LORD JEHOVAH said, and I have built a house for the name of LORD JEHOVAH, God of Israel. 21And I set there the Ark of the Covenant of LORD JEHOVAH which he established with our fathers, when he brought them out from the land of Egypt.

22And Solomon stood before altar of LORD JEHOVAH, next to all the multitude of Israel, and stretched his hands toward Heaven. 23And he prayed and said: “LORD JEHOVAH, God of Israel, there is none like you in Heaven from above and upon the Earth from beneath, because you keep covenant and grace for your Servants who walk before you in the truth, with all their heart and with all their soul. 24For you have kept for your Servant David, my father, that which you said to him, and you spoke with your mouth, and with your hands you have fulfilled, as today. 25And now, LORD JEHOVAH, God of Israel, keep for your Servant David my father the thing which you said to him: ‘There will not fail for you a son from before me who sits on the throne of Israel, only if your children will guard their ways to walk before me in the truth, as you have walked before me.’ 26And now, LORD JEHOVAH, God of Israel, your word will be steadfast which you swore to your Servant David, my father.

27For is God truly dwelling on the Earth? Behold, Heaven and the Heaven of Heavens do not contain you, therefore this house that I have built does not. 28Be turned to the request of your Servant and to his prayer, LORD JEHOVAH my God, to hear prayer and the prayer that your Servant prays before you today. 29That your eyes will be opened on this house by day and by night in the place where you have said: ‘My name will be there’, to hear the prayer that your Servant prays before you toward this place. 30And hear the prayer of your Servant and of your people, Israel, who pray before you in this place, and you, our God, will hear from your dwelling from Heaven and you will forgive.

31If a man shall sin against his fellow man and he will owe oaths upon his oath, and will come and will swear before your altar in this house 32And you will hear from Heaven, and you will act and you will judge your Servants to condemn the guilty and to render his way on his head, and to justify the innocent and to give to him according to his innocence

33And when your people Israel will be defeated in the battle of an enemy when they will sin before you, and they turn to you and they shall confess your name and they will pray and they shall beg of you in this place 34And you will hear from Heaven and you will forgive the sins of your Servants and of your people Israel, and you shall return them to the land that you gave to their fathers

35And when the skies will be restrained and there will be no rain because they have sinned against you, and they will come and they will pray in this place, and they will confess your name and they will turn from their sins when you will answer them 36And you will hear from Heaven and you will forgive the sin of your Servants and of your people Israel, when you shall teach them the good way to go in it, and you will give your rain on the land that you have given to your people for an inheritance

37And when famine shall be in the land or plague, or slaughter, or mildew, or locust, or the crawling locust, when it shall be and when enemies will distress them in one of their cities, and any disease and any disease 38Every prayer and every request that any man may have, of all your people, Israel, that each man may know the trouble of his heart and he shall stretch his hands before you in this house 39Also you will hear from Heaven from the foundation of your seat, and you will forgive and you will act and you will give to a man according to his ways, for you will know his heart, because you alone know the hearts of all of the children of men. 40Because they shall be in awe of you all the days that they live on the face of the land which you gave to their fathers.

41Also concerning the foreigner that was not of your people, Israel, and will come from a distant land, because of your name 42When they shall hear your great name and your mighty hand and your high arm, and he will come and he will pray before you in this house 43And you will hear from Heaven from the foundation of your seat, and you will do according to what the foreigner called to you, so that all the nations of the Earth will know your name to worship you, as your people Israel, and to know that your name is called upon this house that you have built.

44And when your people will come forth to battle against their enemies, on the way that you send them out, and they will pray before you, LORD JEHOVAH, on the street of the city that you have desired and this house that I have built for your name 45And you will hear from Heaven their prayer and their cry and you will perform their justice.

46When they sin against you, because there is not a man who does not sin, and you are angry against them and you hand them over before enemies and their captors take them captive to the land of their enemies, which is far or near 47And they will consider in their heart in the land where they were taken captive, and they will turn and they will beg of you in the land of their captivity, and they will say: “We have sinned, and we have gone astray and we have done evil” 48And they will be turned to you from all their heart and from all their soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and they will pray before you in the road of their land that you have given to their fathers, the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built to your name 49And you shall hear from Heaven, from the foundation of your throne, their prayer and their cry, and you will perform their cause 50And you will forgive your people because they have sinned against you and for all their offenses that they had offended against you, and you shall give them favor before their captors and they will show compassion upon them 51Because they are your people and your inheritance whom you brought out from Egypt, from the furnace of iron 52And your eyes shall be opened to the prayers of your Servants and of your people Israel, and to hear them in all that they cry to you 53Because you separated them to yourself for an inheritance from all the nations of Earth, as you said by the agency of Moshe your Servant, when you brought out their fathers from Egypt, LORD JEHOVAH God!”

54And when Solomon had finished praying all his prayer and this request before LORD JEHOVAH God, he arose from before the altar of LORD JEHOVAH, for he had been kneeling on his knees, and his hands were spread out toward Heaven. 55And he stood and he blessed all the multitude of Israel in a loud voice and said.

56“Blessed is LORD JEHOVAH God who has given rest to Israel his people, according to what he said, and one word has not fallen of all the good words which he spoke by the agency of Moshe his Servant. 57And LORD JEHOVAH our God will be with us as when he was with our fathers; he will not leave us nor will he forsake us 58To restore our hearts to him, to walk in his ways, to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments that he commanded our fathers. 59And these words that I have prayed before LORD JEHOVAH shall be near LORD JEHOVAH God by night and by day, to do the judgment of his Servant and the judgment of his people Israel every day by day 60So that all the nations of Earth will know that LORD JEHOVAH is God and there is none other outside of him. 61And let your heart be perfect with LORD JEHOVAH our God to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments and his laws like today.”

62And King Solomon and all Israel with him were sacrificing a great sacrifice in the presence of LORD JEHOVAH. 63And Solomon offered peace sacrifices in the presence of LORD JEHOVAH: twenty and two thousand bulls and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep, and the King and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of LORD JEHOVAH. 64On that day the King consecrated the inside of the courtyard that was before the house of LORD JEHOVAH, because he made sacrifices and offerings there and the fat of peace offerings, because the altar of brass that was before LORD JEHOVAH was too small to bear the sacrifices and the offerings and the fat of the peace offerings.

65And Solomon made a feast on that day, and all Israel assembled with him from the entrance of Khamath unto the entrance of the river of Egypt before LORD JEHOVAH our God, seven days and seven days fourteen days. 66And in the eighth day the people sent and blessed the King and they went to their tents as they rejoiced, and their hearts were beautiful because of all the good that LORD JEHOVAH did for David his Servant and for his people Israel.